Seat attachment



P. FITCH SEAT ATTACHMENT Feb. 10. 1925. 1,525,928

Filed Jqly 29, 1924 Pat entecll 'leb.10, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATIENT OFFICE.

PHILLIS rrrcn, or mxommnmors.

SEAT ATTACHMENT.

' Application filed m 29, 1924. Serial No. 728,865.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I,-PHILLIs FITCH, a citizenof the United States, residing at Dixon, in the county of Lee and Stateof Illinois, I have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSeat"'Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to table tops or desks adapted to be attached tothe backs of seats such as used on motor cars or .railroad trains; andit consists in the novel construction and combination of the partshereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a seatprovided with an attachment according to this invention. Fig. 2 is aside view of one of the hooks. Fig. 3 is a front view of the same. Fig.4 is a side view of one of the brackets which support the table top.Fig. 5 is plan view of the bracket, showing one of the pockets insection. Two hooks 8 are provided for engaging with the back 9 ofanyfisuitable seat, such as used on motor cars or .railroad trains.

Each hook is preferably formed of a loopshaped piece of'stout springwire, and its end portions 10 are arranged parallel to each other andare secured in a pocket 12.

3 The pocket is preferably a flattened tube of thin sheet metal, but anyother approved material may be used, and the pocket is pressed. againstthe back of the seat by the spring book. A socket 14 is formed in thepocket between the two end portions 10 of the spring hook.

The table top or desk 15 is of any convenient size and material, and itis supported in two loop-shaped brackets 16, 49 which are also formed ofstout wires or rods of spring metal. The main portions of the loopsextend around the table top, and their end portions 17 are bentdownwardly at a right angle to their main portions, and are slid intothe sockets 14:. The end portions 4 5 rounding the said end portions, atable top,

and brackets for supporting the table top provided with end portionswhich are slidable in the said pockets between the portions of thehooks.

2. An attachment for a seat as set forth in claim 1, the said .bracketsbeingformed of loops which extend around the table top at points betweenits ends.

3. An attachment for a seat, comprising two hooks havin verticallyarranged pockets secured to t eir end portions, a table end top, and 100-shaped brackets extending around the ta le top at points between itsends and having end portions arranged side by side, the two end portionsofthe brackets being slidable in the respective pockets, and the saidpockets operating ,to contract the brackets on the table top to preventthe latter from slipping.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

PHILLIS FITCH.

